Start Datafeeds API

A datafeed must be started in order to retrieve data from Elasticsearch.
A datafeed can be started and stopped multiple times throughout its lifecycle.

Request

POST _xpack/ml/datafeeds/<feed_id>/_start

Description

Before you can start a datafeed, the job must be open. Otherwise, an error
occurs.

When you start a datafeed, you can specify a start time. This enables you to
include a training period, providing you have this data available in Elasticsearch.
If you want to analyze from the beginning of a dataset, you can specify any date
earlier than that beginning date.

If you do not specify a start time and the datafeed is associated with a new
job, the analysis starts from the earliest time for which data is available.

When you start a datafeed, you can also specify an end time. If you do so, the
job analyzes data from the start time until the end time, at which point the
analysis stops. This scenario is useful for a one-off batch analysis. If you
do not specify an end time, the datafeed runs continuously.

The start and end times can be specified by using one of the
following formats:

Date-time arguments using either of the ISO 8601 formats must have a time zone
designator, where Z is accepted as an abbreviation for UTC time.

When a URL is expected (for example, in browsers), the + used in time
zone designators must be encoded as %2B.

If the system restarts, any jobs that had datafeeds running are also restarted.

When a stopped datafeed is restarted, it continues processing input data from
the next millisecond after it was stopped. If new data was indexed for that
exact millisecond between stopping and starting, it will be ignored.
If you specify a start value that is earlier than the timestamp of the latest
processed record, the datafeed continues from 1 millisecond after the timestamp
of the latest processed record.

Path Parameters

feed_id (required)

(string) Identifier for the datafeed

Request Body

end

(string) The time that the datafeed should end. This value is exclusive.
The default value is an empty string.

start

(string) The time that the datafeed should begin. This value is inclusive.
The default value is an empty string.

timeout

(time) Controls the amount of time to wait until a datafeed starts.
The default value is 20 seconds.

Authorization

You must have manage_ml, or manage cluster privileges to use this API.
For more information, see
Security Privileges.